Building genius.design

Made Figma plugins to help Uber designers create designs faster (some AI-based) and tools/processes to manage the company's design system. Also prototyped new navigation experiences.

Designed Facebook/Instagram commerce features for brands like Sephora. Ultimately switched to FB AI and designed systems for monitoring the quality and integrity of machine learning data.

Moonlit as a prototyper and motion designer for the Facebook Business vision, and created Figma plugins.

Taught students how to create a Slack-like chat app with a microservice architecture using JavaScript, Go, SQL/NoSQL, RabbitMQ, and Docker. Gave weekly lectures, made rubrics, and graded homework.

Came up with a new taxonomy for ad formats that shipped to production and redesigned the format selector. On the side, explored a color linter Sketch plugin and components for Framer X.

Proposed a loyalty program for Amazon Trade-in by working through the strategy and pricing, and designed/prototyped the experience.

Designed and implemented numerous products/features for the 46,000 UW students, like a way to check the status of your transit card.

Led the redesign of the company's website in four weeks.

Built a Figma spell checker that runs 100% locally. Used by hundreds of Facebook designers.

Prototyped a better transit navigation experience using Framer.

Asked some of the best designers in the world for book recommendations and compiled the results. Product Hunt #1 Product of the Day.

Led UI design/development for a cold gas thruster controlled pod. Became the #1 U.S. team and won the Innovation Award.

Space X video (interface at 1:10): youtube.com/watch?v=AO0sPM…

Made a $75 Sonos alternative using Raspberry Pis, Go, and JS.

Organized and did design/development for the PNW's largest collegiate hackathon.

Created a tool that recommends Design Details episodes. Did the project once in 2017 (CLI) and another time in 2020 (website).

Featured on the Design Details podcast.

More side projects on Twitter (twitter.com/vincentmvdm) and my old website (vincentmvdm.com).

A talk about how I pushed Framer's limits for a year.

I was young and naive but at least the title is funny.